>>>>Nah, some are so bad they don't deserve to live and take up tax money and be let out few years later to commit more murder.
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>>>Ah, but there's the key point. What they deserve isn't necessarily what we should give them. Because what we do to murderers and other criminals is about _us_, not them.
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>>No. Not everything is about "us"... whatever that means....
>>It's more about justice and making sure he/she doesn't murder again. And there is only one way to make sure....
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>Of course it's about us, meaning society. How we treat criminals is part of the bigger picture of how we treat all our fellows.

What do you think? Queen size bed in every cell? Maybe a DVD player ... an iPod?

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>>>If we want a society where fewer people behave violently, we have to build a society that doesn't act violently.
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>>There's nothing violent about how we execute vicious criminals today.
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>In my view, killing them is a violent act. Imprisoning them, and giving them drug treatment, mental health care, etc., would be a compassionate act. I want to be part of a compassionate society.
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I think I just got couple of more cavities. :)

Wonder how many "compassionate" acting judges let out murders just to have them kill again?